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Article | 3/08/2011 EBay attacks server virtualization with 100TB of SSD storage
When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine (VM) deployments, its qu...
Article | 31/07/2011 iPhone aftermarket emerges as updates loom
Yearning for the next iPhone but unsure what to do with your current, soon-to-be-outdated model? Not to worry -- plenty of gadget buyback options are ...
Article | 27/07/2011 Senators push for high-skill immigration reform
A group of U.S. senators pledged Tuesday to open up the country's borders to high-skill immigrants, with lawmakers arguing that the U.S. is turning aw...
Article | 8/07/2011 PayPal to enable purchases on mobile bills with Zong buy
Charging goods, particularly of the digital variety, to a mobile-phone bill may get more commonplace in the U.S. now that eBay plans to buy Zong, a Si...
Article | 6/07/2011 What would you pay for a Google+ invite?
Wish you were on Google's new social networking service, Google+?
Article | 8/06/2011 Ohio man pleads guilty to selling counterfeit software
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to selling more than US$1 million worth of counterfeit financial and tax preparation software on eBay, the U.S. Departm...
Article | 7/06/2011 EBay buys Magento to boost its e-commerce developer tools
In a move that could help eBay improve its tools for online store developers, it has acquired Magento, the maker of an open source e-commerce platform...
Article | 4/06/2011 Advocacy group targets Apple as a tax 'cheater'
A new liberal advocacy group has targeted Apple as a tax "cheater" for its leadership in a coalition calling for Congress to allow U.S. companies to r...
Article | 3/06/2011 EBay's PayPal to stop service on Alibaba site
EBay's PayPal will no longer be a payment option on a site run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, a sign that cooperation between the two comp...
Article | 27/05/2011 PayPal, eBay sue Google over mobile payments secrets
PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the a...
Article | 25/05/2011 Researchers crack Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Digg audio captchas
Researchers have figured out how to to crack captchas, making it possible to launch automated attacks against sites such as Microsoft, eBay and Digg w...
Article | 27/04/2011 Group: Google Buzz settlement a 'killer' for e-commerce
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's proposed settlement with Google over its bungled launch of the Buzz social-networking service could have disastrou...
Article | 4/04/2011 20 events that shaped the Internet, part 1
Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped home and work PCs to instantly access information and data on just about any topic via the...
Article | 4/04/2011 20 events that shaped the Internet, part 2
We take the Internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socializing, commerce-helping, video-sharin...
Article | 5/04/2011 iPad 2 supplies creep closer to demand
Apple's supply of the iPad 2 edged closer to demand today as the company's online store showed a two-to-three week shipping delay.